Thank
you for your interest in becoming a Club Member or Donor to
the Mad Scientists Amateur Radio Club.
We’re
dedicated to the enjoyment and advancement of amateur radio
and the sciences and welcome all licensed hams to utilize
our open repeater system and participate in any of our impromptu
or scheduled on-air NETs or club events.
Our
non-profit organization is grouped into the following membership
categories:
Repeater
User:
If you
are a licensed amateur "Fine Business" operator
and regularly use the repeaters, join in on conversations,
check into our NETs, make QSO's with other operators, or are
just active on the air regularly, then you are considered
a “Repeater User”. It's that simple, just use
the repeaters often and you are part of the Mad Scientists
ARC.
Club
Member:
If you
are already a "Repeater User” and you make a financial
donation to the club’s repeater maintenance and upgrade
fund, then you will be considered a “Club Member”.
Any amount
of donation to the club is appreciated and affirms your interest
in helping the repeaters stay in place and remain fully operational.
In addition, there are two levels of repeater “S Meter”
privileges that you may enjoy with your Associate (or higher)
membership if you complete one of our membership applications
and are officially accepted. Recognition of your donation
requires that you complete a membership application.
To protect
the repeaters from any potential abuse, issuance of the “S
Meter” codes first requires approval by the Senior Members.
Associate
and Enhanced Club Memberships include your entire immediate
family!
Associate
Club Member:
"Club
Members" who donate $35 per year or more will be considered
"Associate Club Members" and are eligible to receive
as a thank you, codes for using the "S Meter” touch-tone
(DTMF) repeater control functions. These are basic codes but
are very useful for functions such as a voice S-Meter report
of your signal strength, the current time, a 16 digit key
pad test and more.
Enhanced
Club Member:
"Club
Members" who donate $90 per year or more will be considered
"Enhanced Club Members" and are eligible to receive
a thank you in the form of additional "S Meter”
touch-tone (DTMF) control codes. These extra features include
a courtesy S-Meter reading that you can set up for another
station, a set-beam function for aligning antennas or measuring
front-to-back or side radiation pattern ratios, and an analog
to digital "Detail S-Meter Mode” that can report
your exact raw signal strength in 1/4 dB increments, as 256
relative steps instead of course S-Units – a very useful
tool for antenna measurements and gain comparisons.
Senior
Club Members & Club Officers:
There
are 4 or 5 "Club Officers" who are key member/owners
and the "Control Operators” of the repeater system.
The "Club
Officers" are licensed amateurs in good standing and
must have a General Class License or better. They must be
willing to assume shared operational and financial responsibility
for maintaining both repeaters, as needed.
Three
of the "Club Officers" will be designated as “Senior
Club Members.” They will share equally all expenses
decided on but not covered by membership fees and donations.
Constructive input of ideas will always be considered and
appreciated from all users and supporters of this organization,
but the "Senior Club Members" will have the final
say in all club and repeater control matters.
Club
NETs:
As listed
in the Events/NETs section, we host regular NETs on the repeaters,
including our growing Friday Night Discussion, Amateur Radio
Newsline, and Slow-Scan TV NETs.
Here’s
your chance to host a NET and run Newsline on our repeaters.
You must be an “Associate Club Member" or higher
and in good standing to run a NET, and assistance by another
Club Member or Officer for the Newsline playback is generally
available if you wish.
Club
Events:
From
time to time, the Mad Scientists and their guests will get
together for a social meeting at a local restaurant for a
"Dutch Treat" meal. This is a great opportunity
to "eye-ball" each other, share ideas, and meet
new club members and repeater users.
Club
Member Email Mailing List:.
All members
are eligible to join the MSARC "Members" Email Mailing List
to keep informed about club events and share ham-radio related
tid-bits. Go
here to join the list. Note: Confirmation of
your email address and approval by the webmaster is required.
Please
consider supporting and joining us using the links below…
Repeater
Fund Donations
Membership
Application
Printable
PDF Membership Application
(for printing and mailing or
faxing back to us)
